Faculty/Author Profile

Alexander S. Vesselinovitch

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Chicago, IL, USA

Alexander Vesselinovitch resolves disputes for corporations and individuals. He focuses on civil and criminal litigation involving breach of contract, anti-fraud, intellectual property and antitrust matters. He also handles domestic and international commercial arbitrations involving various contractual and licensing disputes.

Alex “is regarded as a ‘first-class practitioner’ with a ‘wealth of international experience’” (Who's Who Legal). He handles a variety of complex cases involving both the presentation and defense of fraud, intellectual property and antitrust claims. He also is experienced in handling federal investigations and conducting internal corporate investigations involving serious allegations of misconduct or fraud. Alex also provides counsel in civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) cases.

As former Deputy Chief of the Criminal Receiving and Appellate Division of the US Attorney’s Office in Chicago, Alex was lead counsel in many complex multi-defendant trials involving fraud, banking, health care, organized crime and public corruption. He received the Attorney General’s Special Commendation Award and the Department of Justice Special Achievement Award. He served as a law clerk to US District Judge Charles P. Kocoras for two years. Alex is an approved neutral in arbitration cases and can mediate cross-border international disputes through the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. He is proficient in Russian and Serbo-Croatian.